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7Philosophy as love of wisdom and its relevance to the global crisis of meaning (edited book)Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. 2019.
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7Thorough study of the original vocabulary of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), its relevance to comparative religion, and the status of metaphysical and theological terms in religion.
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16Intimations of a Perennial WisdomAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (3): 357-370. 2020.This essay sketches some of the main characteristics of a perennial and cross-civilizational concept of wisdom. It argues that the latter is based upon a strong and deep sense of transcendence and upon the discernment that flows from it. This essay highlights the ways in which this discriminative wisdom does not amount to any form of dualism, but, on the contrary, leads its proponents and practitioners to an all-encompassing experience of anthropocosmic harmony and metaphysical unity. Taking sto…Read more
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12Absolutizing the Relative and Relativizing the Absolute: Metaphysical Implications of the Christian and Buddhist Soteriological Perspectives, Part IJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 33 (1): 75-97. 2016.This essay is an attempt at opening parallel but contrastive avenues into the respective Christian and Buddhist outlooks with respect to the metaphysical notion of relativity in contradistinction with the concept of the Absolute. The main thesis is that Christianity and Buddhism present us, in their respective normative intellectual economies, with analogous, yet profoundly different ways of envisioning metaphysics from the vantage point of their sui generis soteriology. In other terms, our argu…Read more
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18Absolutizing the Relative and Relativizing the Absolute: Metaphysical Implications of the Christian and Buddhist Soteriological Perspectives, Part IIJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 33 (2): 213-239. 2016.This essay is an attempt at opening parallel but contrastive avenues into the respective Christian and Buddhist outlooks with respect to the metaphysical notion of relativity in contradistinction with the concept of the Absolute. The main thesis is that Christianity and Buddhism present us, in their respective normative intellectual economies, with analogous, yet profoundly different ways of envisioning metaphysics from the vantage point of their sui generis soteriology. In other terms, our argu…Read more
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30Philosophy East/West: Exploring Intersections between Educational and Contemplative Practices ed. by Oren Ergas and Sharon ToddPhilosophy East and West 67 (3): 938-940. 2017.Oren Ergas and Sharon Todd, the editors of Philosophy East/West: Exploring Intersections between Educational and Contemplative Practices, articulate the two main concerns of their project in the introduction. The first intent is to embrace a cross-philosophical approach that may integrate a wide spectrum of wisdom traditions the world over in order to maximize fruitful dialogue and cross-fertilization. The second is to take stock of the recent “contemplative turn” in education, as illustrated pr…Read more
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13L'ontologie mystique des fins dernières chez Madame GuyonRevue Théologique de Louvain 25 (2): 183-198. 1994.
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24Shimmering Reality: The Question of Metaphysical Relativity in Mystical TheologyPhilosophy East and West 64 (3): 649-691. 2014.It can be argued that what most clearly sets “mystical theology” apart from ordinary religious consciousness and rational1 or apologetic theology is its treatment of the relationship between the Ultimate Reality and the non-Ultimate. In fact, mysticism tends to combine the strictest concept of the Absolute, one that points to transcending any polarity, duality, and distinction, and a vision of relativity that both denies the reality of the world of manifestation, when considered independently fr…Read more
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28Acceptance as a Door of MercyCultura 10 (1): 119-140. 2013.There is no religion that does not start from the premise that “something is rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark,” to make use of Hamlet’s suggestive expression:mankind has lost its connection with the principle of its being and disharmony has ensued. This state of affairs, that religion claims to remedy, may be deemed toresult from a sense of radical “otherness” symbolized, in the Abrahamic traditions, by the loss of the blissful unity and proximity of terrestrial paradise. In this paper we propos…Read more
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Les leçons de l'amour-propre chez Pierre NicoleRevue des Sciences Philosophiques Et Théologiques 78 (2): 241-270. 1994.
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50Reading the quran: The lessons of the ambassadors of mystical IslamSophia 46 (2): 147-162. 2007.This paper highlights the contributions of three major Islamicists, Louis Massignon, Henry Corbin, and Frithjof Schuon, to the understanding of the Qur’ân. Their works point to the epistemologic primacy of the contemplative and esoteric dimensions of the Book. Its linguistic texture and modalities are here understood as expressing the very limits of language, the proportional reciprocity between the actualization of inner meaning and spiritual fruition, and its ultimate metaphysical substance. T…Read more
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Asian Philosophy |